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From concours stage to auction podium, an exquisite, multi-award-winning 1928 Mercedes-Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo, judged Best of Show at the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, returns to California’s Monterey Peninsula, from August 16–17, as a premiere offering at RM Auctions’ flagship Monterey sale. Considered the fastest sports car in the world at its time, the stunning,…

Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, will host its 10th Anniversary Pebble Beach Auction on August 17 and 18. This summer, elegance and beauty lead the pack with a graceful array of highly sought-after Rolls-Royce and Bentleys with coachwork by leading makers such as H.J. Mulliner, Park Ward and…

Ted Reich, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars, died Tuesday, July 16, 2013. He was 84.   Originally from Shaker Heights, OH, he came to Oregon to attend Reed College, class of 1951. After marrying, Ted and his wife, Gloria, lived in a small cottage in Dunthorpe, OR, later settling…

RM Auctions has announced today that it has consigned a spectacular single-owner collection of 74 historic Mercedes-Benz cars to its London event. Known as “the Ultimate Mercedes-Benz Collection”, it will go under the hammer during a dedicated sale day on Sunday, 8th September, making the well-established London auction in Battersea a two-day sale for the…

Bonhams rocked headlines around the world on Friday, July 12, when it sold the much-hyped ex-Fangio 1954 Mercedes racer for $29.5m — a new world-record price for a car sold at auction. And just two months ago, RM sold a 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Competizione coupe for $12.8m at Villa Erba, which now stands as…

  Bonhams made automotive history at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale today, when the car that took five-time champion Juan Manuel Fangio to the second of his Formula 1 world titles achieved a record-breaking figure of $29.5m. The auction as a whole realised $53.6m to become the highest-grossing auction of motor cars in Europe.…

Final preparations are well underway for RM Auctions’ annual sale at the historic Inn at St. John’s, in Plymouth, Michigan, July 27. The official auction of the Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s, and a staple on the U.S. collector car calendar, this year’s sale lifts the gavel on 80 quality automobiles, with a…

Bonhams has announced the sale of Maserati 300S Sports-Racing Spider, chassis no. 3053, for this Friday’s Festival of Speed sale. Sir Stirling Moss has described the 3-litre, 6-cylinder-engined Maserati 300S as “…one of my favourite front-engined sports Maseratis – one of the easiest, nicest, best-balanced sports-racing cars ever made.” This fine example of the coveted…

The featured car at the 2013 Palos Verdes Concours d’Elegance on September 15 is a 1933 Duesenberg SJ Torpedo Sedan. The car wears a California license platereading “20 Grand” —  a reference to the original sales price of the car. Part of the Nethercutt Collection, it was restored in 1979 and took top honors at…

  Some of the finest motorcars in the world continue to join what has fast become Bonhams’ most anticipated U.S. automotive event in recent years: the forthcoming Quail Lodge auction.   Leading the recent consignments is the very first Type 35 Bugatti – the prototype. This is in fact the very car in which Le…